A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of
the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A
schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat
of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough
collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally
transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and
contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the
streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one
family. Anaxagorou 'speaks against the darkness', tracking the male
body under pressure from political and historical forces, and
celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a
meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet's
Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic.
Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric
grace, he writes, 'I'm your father & the only person keeping
you alive.' Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize A Poetry Society
Recommendation A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year One of The
Telegraphs Best Poetry Books of 2019
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